Shields on ESPN

David Shields talks to ESPN about James Franco’s film adaptation of Shields’s 1999 book Black Planet

“Half-Light”

Read a new poem by Frank Bidart in the latest issue of The New Yorker, and listen to audio of Bidart reading the poem.

The Trace

“An intense read” proclaims PW about Forrest Gander‘s new novel, “with meditative poems between chapters to complete the package.”